William Jennings Bryan Quotes - Page 3

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.